Boat attachment for delivering seines into the water.



N. 0. DAVIDSON. BOAT ATTACHMENT FOP; DELIVERING SEINES INTO THE WATER. APPLICATION FILED MAB.2,1910. 9 3,21 1 Patented July 5,1910.

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BOAT ATTACHME APPLICATION FILED XULZ. 1910,

Patented July 5, 1910.

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5 N. 0. DAVIDSON. I BOAT ATTACHMENT FOE DELIVERING SEINES INTO THE WATER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2. 1910,

Patented July 5, 1910. I 3 SEEETS-SHEET 3.

NILS O. DAVIDSON, OI'MACOUN. SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.

BOAT ATTACHMENT FOR DELIVERING SEINES INTO THE WATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patent-ed July 5, 1910.

I Application filed March 2. 1910. Serial No. 546.825.

T of] wit-m it may concern:

residing at llacoun. in the Province of Has katchewan. Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boat -\tt:n:hnients for Delivering Seines into the Water: and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact; description of the invention, such as will enable oti.ci's skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple and highly etlicient device for use in delivering fishing seines from boats into the water.

To this end, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

As is wellknown, in fishing at sea, or even in the large lakes, very long fishing seines are employed and these are delivered from a' boat into the wafer and are thereafter pulled from the water back into the boat. lhe seines are delivered from the boat while the boat is in motion and it has hitherto been done entirely by hand and great dillicult has been experienced in preventing:

tangling or twisting of the seines in the act -of delivering the same from the boat into the water. The problem of properly dclivt-ring the seine into the water is, lirst, to prevent tangling or twisting of the seine before it leaves the boat and, second, in deliwring the seine into the water in such a manner that the weights at one edge thereof will be delivered into the water and submerged in advanciol' the floats that are atta hed to be other edge of the seine.

My invention provides a simple device for properly a compli hing this work.

The improved dcvice comprises a pair of approximately parallel adjacent Or closely positioned dcli\cr v troughs or channels that extend from the boat ovcr the water. I have found that two principal l'catures contribute to the propcr delivery ol the weighted and float-equipped edges of the seine into the water, to-wit: First. it the delivery trough for the weights or sinkcrs be terminated at a point below the d livery end of the tr ugh for thc lloats, the weights or sinkers will he given a chance to drop into the water in advan e of the transversely opposite. floats and. hcn c. tho seine \viil be (ltll'v'tl'ttl into hence, will assume a vertical or approximately vertical position. .FUI'tlIGI'lHOl'C, if the deliwr end of the channel for the weights or sinkers be terminated ahead of the deli\er end of the trough for the floats, substantially the same result will be attained. Both features should, however, be combined to insure the above noted proper delivery of the seine into the water.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are views respectively in plan and side elevation. showing the rear portion of a boat and illustrating a seine being delivered into the water from the boat by my improved device; Fig. 3 is a plan view showing, on a larger scale than Figs. 1 and 2, the seine delivery device removed from the boat; Fig. 4 is a section taken on the irregular line a 9; of Fig. some parts being broken away; Fig. 5 is a transverse vertical section taken on the line .r'" .r" of Fig. 4: Fig. 6 is a transverse vertical section taken on the line .1' an" of Fig. 4: Fig. 7 is a plan view showing a slightly modified form of the seine delivery devic Fig. 8 is a vertical section taken on thc. line r .u of Fig. T; Fig. 9 is a plan view illustrating a still further modilied form of the scintdelivery device: Fig. it) is a section takcn on the line .r .r" of Fig. 5); and Fig. ll is a plan view showing a modification of the construction illustrated in Figs. 5) and 10.

The numeral 1 indicates a boat and the numeral 2 indicates a seine having, at one edgtweights or sinkers 3, and, at its other edge, lioats l.

Referring, first, to the construction illuslratcd in Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, the numerals 5 and 3 indicate a pair of troughs or seinedclivt-r v channels secured together, or side by sidc. with a single partition between them, and having Haring l'ront ends that are conn ctcd to the rear end of a sort ot" a hopper box T, which latter is formed by an extension of the bottom and outer sides of the two troughs. 'lhe trough 5 is intended for the delivery of the weighted edgc 3 of the seine, \'.'hilc the trough 3 is intended for the delivery of the float-equipped edge 4 of the seine; and the delivery end of thesaid trough 5 terminates at a point below, and ahead of. the delivery end of the said trough the water properly set. up or cdgcwise, and, 1 ti, for the important purposes fully stated in the introduc ion? part of th 3n the internin e porlion box '5 is a Wed; .ped cam rises and widen. from the front c tion of the said ho); toward the rear the and, at its upper rear portion, iern'iinaies inward of the flaring side walls of the two troughs 5 and 6. Set into a seatforined (ii the extreme front end portion of the bottom of the hopper loos T, is a long roller 9, on

which the entire seine is drawn on its war i passage ways 5 and 6, small bed rollers are mounted in the bottom, and oblique rollers 11 are 7 urnaled on the sides of the cam block 8, as clearly shown in Figs. 3. and

The scinemust, of course, be properly started by hand in o the hopper box, but this is all that is required as the subsequent dchv ering of the some into th water \Vlil be accomplislwd in the manner already Inadef in the modified construction illr ated in i vice for dehvcrmg semes therefrom into the Figs. 7 and the two delivery troughs 5 and (5 are,'as before, connectedto the hopper box 7, having rolers 9, 10 and 11 corresponding respectively to the before dc- 1 having its delivery cud ternunated at a pointscribed rollers 9, l0 and. 11; but the cam block 8 is not quite like the cam block 8, having. as shown, the saune width tiu'migllout its entire length, and an upper guide roller l2 is mounted in the sides of the hon per box 7 for cooperation with he rollers 10 and 11". The said roller 12, it wili he noted,-has end sections which, at thcir inner cxtremizies, terminate sufilcicntly short of the upper extremities of the rollers 11' to permit the seine to pass olf from the can: block 8 and onto and over the partition hetwecn the troughs 5 and 6.

In the construction illustrated in Figs. J had 10, the trough .3,- for the delivery of ue weights or sinkcrs. terminates in the same plane. but ahead of. the delivery end of {he trough t3" whivh delivers the limits. in ihis construction also, the hopper hox' proper is dispensed will], but llureceiving ends uf ihe troughs .3 and U are made during. and in the plane of lhe llarc ilicrcul. a shaft or rod 13 is secured to the sides of'thc suid troughs and, on the shaft. rollers l and wheels 15 are mounted. The wln'els 15 um positioned close to, and one on ouch side of, he partilion between the lwo troughs. Small upper guide rollers. 14; are journulcd in suitable hearings on the projccliug cuds'of the sides l l l l i 1 i 05 \h lrorghs, and these cooperate with the H and the wheels l5 to deliver the ....u:, with us .Lililo: of the trough 5 and The Zlouis of the trough 5, and che oody or the seine overlying the partition between the 7( two troughs. V

The construction shown in Fig. 11 is identical w th that illustrated in Figs. 9 and 1t} except that the troughs 5 and 6 are provided with extensions 5 and '3 respectively, 7 that extend at right angles thereto and are provided with small upright rollers 17 and 18 at the corners around which the seine is caused to travel.

What- I claim is:

1. A. device fol-delivering seines from a boat into the water, comprising a pair of approximately oarallel troiwhs, one for the floats and one ior the weig ts, and having their delivery ends terminating at diifere'lt 35 points and arranged to deliver the weights into the water in advance of the floats, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a boat, of a (lovice for delivering seines therefrom into the wet oomynising n puir of :1 proximately ,aarallcl troughs, one for the fonts and one for the weights, the trough for the weights having its delivery 0nd terminated at a point below the delivery end of the rough for the floats, substantially as described.

The combination with a boat, of a dewater, comprising a pair of approxinmtely parallel troughs, one for the floats and one 101 for the weights, the trough for the weights below and in advance of the delivery end of the trough for the floats, substantially as described. 105

4. The combination with a boat, of a device for delivering seiues therefrom into the water, comprising a pair of approximately parallel troughs terminating' in a hopper box or enlarged receivin portion, the latter 11o having a cum blC'ik a opted to raise the body of the seine and to deliver the floats into one of the troughs and the weights into the other trough, substantially described.

5. The combination with a boet,'of a do vice for delivering seines therefrom into the water, comprising a. pair of ap roximatelyparallel troughs, provided with expanded receiving ends and guide rollers and c05pcrating receiving devices adapted to raise the body of the seine and to direct the weights into one of the troughs and the floats nto the other trough, substantially-as described.

In testimon whereof I affix my signature in presence 0 two witnesses.

NILS O. DAVIDSON.

Witnesses:

Amos V. Samson, 'l lARRY D. K muons. 

